Lori G. Wilfong, Ph.D.
Lori is the creator of this website and instructor of the course Multicultural Voices in Children’s and Young Adult Literature at Kent State University in the summer of 2010. The multicultural book she identified with growing up was Starring Sally J. Freedman, As Herself, by Judy Blume.
Mary Gaeckle
Mary Gaeckle is currently a substitute teacher. She has taught 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. Mary is currently working on her Masters in Education at Kent State University.
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer is a Math Tutor in the Tallmadge City Schools as well as a graduate student of reading specialization through Kent State University. Thank You, Mr. Falker influenced me as a student and as a teacher.
Cynthia Pinter
Cindy is a grad student in the Multicultural Voices in Children's and Young Adult Literature course at KSU and an eighth grade Language Arts teacher at Perry Middle School. The multicultural literature book she identified with was We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.
Lori Keaton
Lori Keaton is currently a fifth grade teacher in the Revere Schools in Bath and Richfield Ohio. She's excited to have finished her Masters Degree from Kent State University this summer, 2010. She has taught grades 3-5 for the past 16 years and has taught in private and public schools and in both inner city and suburban schools. Her favorite multicultural literature books include Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Number the Stars, and Freak the Mighty.
Katie McCarthy
Katie is a second grade teacher and is currently studying at Kent State University for her Master’s degree in Reading Specialization. The multicultural book she identifies with is Little Redheads Across America by Nicole Giladi, which celebrates the uniqueness of redheads. Katie has always been proud to have red hair.
Fallon E. Miller
Fallon has been teaching for three years, and will be teaching 2nd grade in the fall. She is currently taking the course, Multicultural Voices in Children's and Young Adult Literature at Kent State University. The Multicultural book she identified with growing up was The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.
Laura DeBos
Laura DeBos is currently a third grade teacher in the Rootstown school system, located in Rootstown, Ohio. She has also enjoyed her teaching experiences in kindergarten, first grade and in a gifted program. Some of her favorite multiculural books include: Thank-you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco; The Girl Who Could Fly, by Victoria Forester; Illusions by Richard Bach; The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis and many more!
Danielle Morvilius
Danielle is a 2006 graduate of Miami University of Ohio. She has been teaching third grade for four years and is currently enrolled in Kent State University’s graduate program for Reading Specialization. The book she identified with as a new teacher was Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year, by Esmé Raji Codell.
Jamie Eberts
Jamie Eberts is a sixth grade intervention specialist with Springfield Local Schools. She has experience with teaching preschool, kindergarten, second, third, fourth, and sixth grades. Jamie currently is finishing her masters degree at Kent State University.
Megan Meneer
Megan is a 6th year Kindergarten teacher in the Stow-Munroe Falls School District. She currently is enrolled the multicultural Voices in Children's and Young Adult Literature course. The multicultural book she identified with growing up was Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman.
Lora Naska
Lora Naska is currently a seventh grade language arts teacher. She has recently received her reading endorsement through Kent State University and is presently pursuing her MA in Reading Specialization. Letter to My Daughter, by Maya Angelou is one multiculturalbook that Lora identifies with.
Tiffany Jones
Tiffany R. Jones, B.S. Ed. is currently working on her M.E. with a Reading Specialization at Kent State University. She is a reading intervention teacher for Akron Public Schools. The book she identifies with most from her childhood is Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Nicole Hume
Nicole Hume is currently in her 2nd year of Kent State's Reading Specialization Master's program. The multicultural book that she identifies with is Marcia Schonberg's B is for Buckeye book.
Antoinette Berghoff
Ann Berghoff is a Title 1 reading tutor. After teaching reading for over 20 years, she has quite a collection of children's literature. She likes books that deal with acceptance of differences. Books like Dr. Suess's the Sneeches and Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko are examples of books that she enjoys sharing.
Stephanie Brandy
Stephanie Brandy is a teacher of Special Education at Copley-Fairlawn City Schools. She has been teaching for the past four years and enjoys working at the middle school level.
Kristine Faber
Kristine Faber has just completed her reading endorsement and is now pursuing her Masters in Education with a Reading Specialization at Kent State University. She is currently a Reading Program Coordinator for a community school, and taught 4th grade in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Crissy Sims
Currently I am an educational consultant for The American Reading Company. Prior to this I was a teacher in the Akron Public Schools for 11 years.
Violet Frye
Violet Frye is a reading specialist. She works with students providing reading intervention in grades kindergarten through 5th grade. She is just completing her reading endorsement from Kent State University.She is an avid reader and enjoys reading all genres.
Jennifer Mullet
Jennifer Mullet works as a substitute teacher and spent the 2009-2010 school year earning a reading endorsement through Kent State University. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Diana Gabaldon are two of her favorite authors.
Kristin Modugno
Kristin Modugno is a graduate of the University of Akron with a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education. She is currently a Kindergarten teacher for Kent City Schools and is working towards her Master's in Reading Specialization through Kent State University.
Anna Pavkov
Anna is a Reading Specialist graduate student at Kent State University. She has previously taught high school Social Studies in the greater Akron, Ohio area. The multicultural book she identified most with growing up was Charly by Jack Weyland.
Christine Madrigal
Christine is an Early Childhood Educator teaching in Northeast Ohio. She graduated from Kent State University in 2003 and is currently enrolled in the Reading Specialization Masters Program. She has taught both first and second grade but is currently teaching reading as a Title 1 Tutor. Some of her favorite multicultural books include Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter, The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, and My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson-Peete.
Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie is the Title 1 Reading teacher at Central Elementary in the New Philadelphia City Schools. The Multicultural book that she identifies with is The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? By Rick Warren
Marie Mackey
Marie is a graduate student attending Kent State University and a third grade teacher in Northeast Ohio. Several multicultural books have inspired her path in life, one in particular; The Terlingua Teacher, by Trent Jones and Carlton Stowers.
